tomcat not starting on installed systems under custom user

[kalxas]

When OSGeoLive is installed with user name != "user", tomcat cannot be started.

Linked to #1141

[hamish]

USER_NAME set to something else at build time or at install time? this is in a VM? I'm not sure how to "skel" the groups a new user is assigned to.

if install-time that's somewhat expected, make sure you add your new user to all the groups that "user" belongs to. (type 'groups' in a terminal when logged in as 'user')

Hamish

[hamish]

Guy wrote:

sudo service tomcat6 start

oh, so the trouble is the new-arbitrary user does not have sudo access to do that.

kalxas wrote:

As a workaround, you can add to the /etc/sudoers.d the following:

<username> ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/service tomcat6 start,/usr/sbin/service tomcat6 stop,/usr/sbin/service tomcat6 status

[kalxas]

As wildintellect suggested, we should update osgeolive_install_quickstart.html including tips for those who want to install under a different user name.

[kalxas]

Installation Tips section added in [10695]

[kalxas]

There was a discussion on IRC about using gksu for users other than "user" and live session.